Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Do This Week It's a beautiful week with another potentially stormy weekend ahead, but let's just pretend it's spring because it already basically is and get out there doing non-internet things. TUESDAY, MARCH 15 NEW ORLEANS
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end of
Arts & Entertainment Tony-Winning Musical 'Fun Home' To Be Inaugural Production In Newly Redone Curran In conjunction with a discussion with the show's creators and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom last night, the Curran Theatre announced that Broadway hit and 2015 Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home is on its
SF News Planning Commissioner Loses It On Twitter Over Gawker's SF Housing Scold Last week, here on SFist, I got a little mad at Gawker editor Hamilton Nolan for stepping into a discussion about San Francisco's housing crisis a discussion in which he really does not
SF News Video: First Functioning New BART Car Begins Cross-Country Journey On Flatbed Truck It's happening, everyone. BART's spiffy, modern new rail cars are actually hitting the assembly line in upstate New York, and the very first one was just loaded up onto a flatbed truck to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where To Eat The Best Irish Food In San Francisco As St. Patrick's Day approaches, we at SFist thought you needed a primer on the best of many places around San Francisco to indulge in traditional Irish pub grub (and baked goods) whilst
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: Truly Sad Sleeper Van Going For $800/Month It's not the first van or truck to be in this column, and it won't be the last probably, but this sleeper van picked up by Curbed this week really takes the cake
SF News Day Around The Bay: Did You Get Your Burning Man Ticket Yet? The family of a 65-year-old Oakland amputee who died in jail after being mistakenly arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife lashed out at police on Tuesday. [Mercury-News, ABC 7] Washington-based company founded
SF News Hot Convict Jeremy Meeks Walked Out Of Prison Today, Will Presumably Begin Modeling Remember the heady days of mid-2014 when a Northern California man named Jeremy Meeks, arrested in Stockton on firearms charges and reputed to be a member of the Northside Gangster Crips in that
Arts & Entertainment John Leguizamo To Preview 'Latin History For Dummies' At Berkeley Rep This Summer In what's likely to be the pre-Broadway trial run of his latest one-man show, Obie and Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo is bringing Latin History For Dummies to Berkeley Rep for a world
SF News Now Gawker Scolds San Francisco For Not Building Enough Housing OK, can we all agree that, at the very least, New Yorkers and Angelenos can stop telling us how stupid we've been, collectively, as the city of San Francisco in not preparing for
SF News Key Witness For City Says Alex Nieto Pointed Taser At Him And His Dog The tragic sequence of events that led to the death of Alex Nieto on March 21, 2014 got a new and weird detail added to it with the conclusion of witness testimony on
Arts & Entertainment Artist Protests Facebook Ban After She Reposts 'Baby Dick' Trump Painting Artist Illma Gore has been, like many of us in the anti-Trump camp, amused by the ongoing joke about Donald Trump's penis size spurned in part by John Oliver dredging up an old
Arts & Entertainment Graham Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash Will Never Perform Together Again Classic rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, a.k.a. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, are fully and completely broken up forevermore, as Graham Nash tells Billboard in a new interview. The reason:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Bagdad Cafe/SliderBar Space Becoming The Castro Republic, Under New Ownership Welp, the story we all knew would end this way has reached its end as Health-Department-closure-afflicted SliderBar (2295 Market Street), which was rechristened OVOK in September with basically the same menu, to not
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Teens React To Windows 95 Here's a fun little video to get you over that mid-afternoon slump and simultaneously make (most of) you feel really, really old. Fine Brothers Entertainment got a bunch of teenagers and sat them
Arts & Entertainment Courtney Love Dispels Lie About Rich SF Grandparents, Says She's Absolutely Not Ready To Be A Grandmother Herself An evening with Courtney Love and musical collaborator Todd Almond, announced last month, happened last night at The Curran, and it was a conversation both about Kansas City Choir Boy the two-person narrative
SF News Landlord Now Attempting Mass Ellis Act Eviction At 84-Unit Mid-Market Building The two-and-a-half-year-old saga of 1049 Market Street continues this week as the landlord, at this point desperate to convert his half-empty residential property into office space, is invoking the Ellis Act after all
SF News How Many San Franciscans Are Rooting For The Tech Economy To Tank? As they sometimes do with towns they consider their curious backwater cousins, the New York Times has taken up the current state of San Francisco, macro-psychologically, today in yet another piece about the
SF News Commuter Train Out Of San Jose Derails In Mudslide In Niles Canyon, Injuring Nine Sunol: Train derailment. Rescue in progress. @AlamedaCoFire, @FremontFire, @CAL_FIRE, @CHPDublin on scene pic.twitter.com/TszJpQJ1G8— Alameda County Fire (@AlamedaCoFire) March 8, 2016 An Altamont Corridor Express train traveling from San Jose
Arts & Entertainment Regarding The Short-Lived, Now Defunct Secret Society Known As The Latitude You've likely read multiple accounts of the Jejune Institute-adjacent secret society in the Mission created by the company Nonchalance, dubbed The Latitude, which folded in September 2015 after a brief attempt to become
SF News Key Witness And Medical Examiner Cross-Examined In Nieto Trial In testimony Friday in the wrongful death case against the city and the SFPD regarding the 2014 shooting death of Alejandro "Alex" Nieto, key prosecution witness Antonio Theodore was cross-examined by Deputy City
SF News Redding Police Pursue Suspect In Scooby Doo Mystery Van Lookalike This "Mystery Machine" #ScoobyDoo lookalike van apparently led #Redding police on a pursuit today @KRCR7 #KRCR pic.twitter.com/vjhvMsof5B— Madison Wade (@madisonwadeKRCR) March 6, 2016 A story making the rounds from the
SF News Video: SFPD Officer Caught On Camera Hitting Suspect Says He Needs To Seize Camera A plainclothes SFPD officer seen in the video above apparently punching a suspect as he's being arrested can then be heard saying he has to "seize" the camera that was recording the incident
SF News Sunday Storm Topples More Trees, Causes Floods, Shuts Down Highways Bay Area: El Niño to deliver another potent storm system later this week https://t.co/70TGZTU345 @sbaxter_sc pic.twitter.com/8jn8IqfNVc— Mercury News (@mercnews) March 7, 2016 Following all that stormy
